PEARSALL — Making a mistake in judgment when a spike white-tailed buck offers a chance for a shot at the Big O Ranch near here has left a hefty dent in the wallet of quite a few hunters during the ...

It was cold, rainy, and windy in west-central Pennsylvania on Dec. 3. Ashley Matchett knew the conditions were poor, but she still wanted to get a hunt in with her husband, Chad Janeski. “Chad was ...

For the big-game hunter who likes to fire at a fleet and agile target to the accompaniment of dog music, I recommend shooting whitetail bucks ahead of a mixed pack of Walker and black and tan deer ...

This story, “Murphy’s Pride,” originally ran in the May 1989 issue of Outdoor Life. In the fireplace, a log burned through and set off a fusillade of sparks as it plunked between the andirons. Murphy ...

This was the first year Jacob Combs of Port St. Joe, Florida, hunted his new 400-acre lease of a pine-tree farm in Calhoun County. He knew there were deer on the property, but it wasn’t until ...

The final week of the pre-rut is here and the bucks are increasingly active during daylight. With the final days of October slipping by, the time of year that every whitetail hunter dreams of is at ...

This story is a collaboration with the Okayest Hunter. They say we’re always supposed to be moving forward—grow, improve, evolve. When you tag a 6-point whitetail deer, next year it ought to be an 8, ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks. The rut is something that occurs over several weeks in the fall. It’s the period ...

Deer season has been slow in South Arkansas, but it has been good in North Arkansas. At Old Belfast Hunting Club in northern Grant County, deer are largely ignoring corn. Sure, my club mates have the ...